wretched russian

• несча́стный

  unhappy, miserable, wretched

  unfortunate, unlucky

• жа́лкий

  pitiful, pathetic, pitiable

  miserable, wretched, paltry, pathetic

• убо́гий

  wretched miserable

• ску́дный

  meagre, scanty, scant, sparse

  poor, wretched, humble

  barren, infertile, poor

  stingy, miserly, tight-fisted

• скве́рно

  badly, poorly, awfully

  nauseously, sick (feel), wretched (feel)

  foully, vilely, filthily, disgustingly

• доми́шко

  wretched house

• вши́вый

  lice-ridden, lousy, lice-infested

  lousy, rotten, measly, wretched

• мизе́рный

  scanty, meagre, wretched

• презре́нный

  contemptible, despicable, base

  wretched, sordid, paltry

• кукова́ть

  to call (of a cuckoo), to cuckoo

  to be stuck (waiting), to sit around waiting, to kick one's heels

  to lead a wretched life, to live miserably (alone)

• вра́жий

  enemy's, enemy, hostile

  lousy, rotten, wretched

• влачи́ть

  to eke out (an existence), to lead (a wretched life)

  to drag, to trail, to haul

• лоха́нка

  tub, washtub, basin

  broad, bimbo, dame, tart

  whore, slut, hooker

  dreary existence, wretched life

  cunt, pussy

• отмы́каться

  to come unlocked, to open, to be unlocked

  to stop drifting in misery, to have done with a wretched life, to find peace at last

• житьи́шко

  poor life, miserable existence, wretched life

• влачи́вший

  dragging, trailing, hauling

  eking out (an existence), leading (a wretched life)

• влача́щий

  eking out an existence, leading a wretched existence

  dragging, hauling

• убо́жество

  wretchedness, squalor, infirmity

• убо́гость

  squalor, wretchedness, shabbiness, dinginess

  poverty (of ideas), paucity, narrowness

  infirmity, feebleness, crippled state

• ми́зерность

  scantiness, paltriness, meagreness, insignificance

  wretchedness, miserable state

  meanness, baseness, pettiness of character

• надло́м

  fracture, break, crack

  break point, fracture point

  brokenness, dejection, wretchedness

• жа́лкость

  pitifulness, patheticness, wretchedness

• нищенски

  beggarly, in destitution, wretchedly

  pitifully small, paltry, measly

Examples

• Ибо ты говори́шь: "я бога́т, разбогате́л и ни в чем не име́ю нужды"; а не зна́ешь, что ты несча́стен, и жа́лок, и нищ, и слеп, и наг.

  Because thou sayest — I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

• Изыди, нечести́вое порожде́ние кошма́рных недр а́да!

  Begone, wretched spawn of Hell's unholy bowels!

• Я убо́г и нищ.

  I am wretched and poor.

• Жа́лкий оста́ток вы́водка драко́нов пригласи́л певца́ на пра́здник.

  The wretched remnant of a brood of dragons invited a singer to the feast.

• Куда ты запропастился, окаянный кот?

  Where have you got to, you wretched cat?

• Ей опротивела эта постылая работа.

  She had grown to hate that wretched job.

• Эту книжонку купили за копейки на рынке.

  They bought this wretched little book for next to nothing at the market.

• Он говорил об убогости своей жизни с грустью.

  He spoke sadly about the wretchedness of his life.

• В этом фильме показана вся жалкость такой жизни.

  This film shows just how wretched such a life is.

• Меня поразила жалкость их старого дома.

  I was struck by the wretched state of their old house.